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He's at it again: Action man Putin poses with a 20-pound pike

Vladimir Putin with his 20-pound pike. Photo: Russia Today

Russian president Vladimir Putin has been filmed in action man mode again.

This time he has caught a 20-pound pike during a holiday with his prime minister Dmitry Medvedev in the remote area of Tuva - but not that remote that the catch was recorded by TV crew and photographers.

It is not the first time he has been filmed flexing his muscles:

2008: Showing off his judo skills

The judo enthusiast and a black belt holder presented an instructional DVD in the martial art in 2008.

2008: Saving a TV crew from a Siberian tiger

Vladimir Putin with the sedated Siberian tiger. Credit: Reuters

Vladimir Putin was feted by Russian media for saving a television crew from an attack by a Siberian tiger in the wilds of the Far East.

Putin apparently saved the crew while on a trip to a national park to see how researchers monitor the tigers in the wild.

Just as Putin was arriving with a group of wildlife specialists to see a trapped Amur tiger, it escaped and ran towards a nearby camera crew, the country's main television station said. Putin quickly shot the beast and sedated it with a tranquilizer gun.